On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Or you can get a list of fields whose focusable is true and locktext is false
> (because you don't want to tab to labels now do you) and then present the
> developer with an interface where they can click sequentially on the fields
> in the order that they want to tab through, then save that list in a property
> of the card. Your tab through function can then get the short name of the
> current target, find it in the property list, check to see if it's the last
> one, get the first item if so, the next item if not, and then focus on that
> field.
>
> The advantage to this approach is that it will work universally for any card.
> Ideally you would want to copy every editable field on the card to a new one,
> along with a Cancel and Save button, and then save the list of fields in a
> property of the original card.
You wouldn't have to make a whole new card, just a menuitem which launches
something like (not tested):
on doFieldOrder
answer "Click on the fields in the order you want. When done, press the
commandkey."
repeat
if the commandkey is down then exit repeat
wait until the mouseclick
put word 2 of the clickfield into cf -- fld nbr
if cf = empty then -- not a field
answer "You must click on a field!"
next repeat
end if
select the text of fld cf -- user feedback
wait 5
select empty
put the short id of fld cf & cr after fldList
end repeat
delete char -1 of fldList
set the tabOrderList of this card to fldList
beep -- user feelback
end doFieldOrder
then use the customprop to find the id of the next field in the list when the
user tabs out of the field.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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